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Subject: Re: FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity, and
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:23:43PM +0000, Mark Blackman wrote:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/release-proc.html
> 
> "New releases of FreeBSD are released from the -STABLE branch at
> approximately four month intervals."

That was our intention at one point.  Obviously we've not stuck to that.
(IMHO doing releases quite that frequently is probably beyond what we can
do with volunteer staffing, but I'm not on re@ so take it as you will.)

In any case, various people within the project have now absorbed the
lesson that "10 months between releases is too long", and are trying to
figure out what to do about it.

mcl